You might like Styled Components then, if you're using React anyway. Not sure if there's similar systems for other frameworks. I don't consider it pointless make-work to develop a consistent stylesheet to use throughout your app though.

Styled Components is too low-level (let’s name every div!!!) and comes with a substantial performance cost. Tailwind is a much better option.

> a substantial performance cost

I believe the Babel plugin eliminates most of the performance cost.

The naming is double-edged. Often you want to re-use your styled element, so the fact that it has a name from the get-go makes that really easy. But you're right, sometimes it's annoying to pull bits out that you didn't really want to.

Ultimately I went back to CSS Modules. I just don't understand why I'd want to the appeal of Tailwind.. I'd have to learn a new DSL that ultimately gives me less control.